Kingdonia uniflora one-leaf grass - The most lonely tree

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In the world of luxuriant leafy plants, one leaf can be said to be the most lonely in the world. About flowers, it has only 1 flower, only 1 leaf is left.

Its upper ground is only about 10cm, 1 leaf is nearly round with 5 or 6, 1 flower is green. The lower part of the ground is the underground body that burns, the flowers grow up from this burning, and there are also many unstable roots and flakes.

One-leaf grass is herbaceous plant, longtime Ranunculaceae is usually distributed in primitive forests on high mountains 2750-3975m in cold and humid environment, sunny, slightly acidic soil. That is also the salient feature of Mao Liang.

Leaf 1 leaves not only lonely flowers but also very original texture. The veins are typical of the double forked type, which is the original veins with no two of more than 1500 varieties in the Mao family. Flowers consist of petals, degenerate stamens, bisexuals and dermis; but the petals bloom in the same way as the double, the center of the second hatches soon. Since the discovery of one-leaf grass in 1914 in high mountains in Yunnan - China has made the world-wide botanical industry interested and studied to understand deeply the evolution of plants.

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